Senior Capacity Expansion & Production Cost Analyst - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

As Senior Capacity Expansion & Production Cost Analyst, you will support, and co-lead Mainspring growth strategies and activities in order to promote deployment of grid-scale applications for our linear generator technology and influence strategies for winning new business. You will provide critical analysis to support product development, strategy and sales, and have the opportunity to help shape solution offerings for Mainspring’s customers. A successful candidate in this role will draw from previous commercial analysis, strategy, energy business intelligence, or business development experience, be proficient in capacity expansion and production cost analysis/modeling, be well-versed in project management, and be excited to create value both as a member of a team and as an individual contributor. Additionally, the selected candidate will:

• Be an influential member of the commercial analytics team.

• Build, maintain and run utility portfolio simulations from both a capacity expansion and from a production cost modeling perspective. This will include exploration from a research perspective (to inform product development and strategy), and from a business development/use-case perspective (to inform business development and sales).

• Model competitiveness of MSE tech with other power generation technologies, including thermal, renewable and energy storage.

• Review/compare electric utility integrated resource plans and other documentation to build an understanding of cost and performance of technologies considered for new builds, and advise ways to position Mainspring linear generators for inclusion as capacity choices in utility integrated resource plans..

• Guide and provide insight, quantified by analytics, on the role of clean fuels (e.g., hydrogen, ammonia, biogas) in decarbonized energy systems, and how linear generators are well-suited for this purpose.

• Work closely with the business development, product, policy, and regulatory affairs teams to continue shaping and executing on Mainspring’s business strategy in North America, including defining target markets and customers, solutions, value propositions.

• Support new business and product development efforts incl. development of new business cases, documentation of product needs, issues, and improvements

• Establish relationships with industry data providers, service vendors, and consultants

• Analyze current market trends, regulations, economic drivers, and technology benchmarks to inform Mainspring’s business plan and offer development

This role will report to Director of Business Development, Grid-Scale Applications

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional experience in integrated resource planning and utility strategy space, and/or technology commercialization.

• 3 or more years experience with capacity expansion and least cost dispatch simulation approaches.

• Curious and excited to learn and expand horizons in the energy space, from the market, our customers and other team members and their areas of expertise,

• BA/BS degree in economics, engineering, business required; advanced STEM or business degree (e.g. MBA) preferred

• Strong interdisciplinary background,

• Proven track record and experience with solving complex issues in a creative and collaborative manner,

• Strong critical thinking and issue prioritization skills, as well as strong verbal and written communication skills,

• In-depth understanding of the US electric power industry,

• Passionate about the energy systems, the energy transition, and development and commercialization of disruptive energy technologies

The Bay Area salary for this role is $115k-$130k base + bonus + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position can be remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.